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Ross Douthat of the New York Times has joined the swelling ranks of those reacting to the recent article in the influential Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, written by two papal confidantes, the Jesuit Rev. […]

Ross Douthat’s columns in The New York Times on Catholicism and the current pontificate are rare instances where the discussion of the profound contemporary crisis of Catholic identity rises above the usual “when’s the Church […]

What Does the Future Hold? The ‘Usual Suspects’: signs of this revival include: new Catholic schools and colleges that are truly Catholic; reversion to a more authentic Catholic character by some of the older institutions that […]

Summary of Sociological Analyses: MAKE A TABLE HERE Summary of Analogy: MAKE A TABLE HERE This is certainly a grim analysis: precisely zero percent of Catholics (at least, lay Catholics) have found a way to […]

As we have seen, my own experiences have dovetailed rather neatly with each of the major Catholic responses to Modernity in the four previous posts. With Radical Traditional Catholicism, I have only had fleeting experiences. […]

Once I began to see the inauthenticity of the Neo-Con option, I turned my sights to proponents of the ‘Third Way’: the Distributist vision of Chesterton, Belloc; Richard Weaver. John Senior. Dorothy Day and Peter […]